Quote:Four people were injured and there were “potentially multiple deaths” from a shooting by an employee at a UPS facility in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, according to UPS.

“We understand that there are potentially multiple deaths, although we are unsure of their status at this time,” a UPS spokeswoman, Natalie Godwin, told the Guardian.

A different UPS spokesman told the Associated Press that he believed the shooter was an employee who “turned the gun on himself”, but he did not have any more information.

Larry Greathouse, who works at a nearby tire shop, said he realized something had happened when a “massive police presence” showed up. Multiple UPS workers came into the shop, he said, and one told him that a fellow UPS employee had “shot two guys on the way in and one on the way out”.

Two homeless men living in tents nearby, Moe Smith and Antwun Dixon, said they had heard the gunshots.
“I heard three, maybe four or five shots, and screaming,” said Dixon. “The whole thing took three minutes.”

A spokesman for San Francisco general hospital told the Associated Press that the hospital had received multiple victims, but he did not know the number of victims or their condition.

The police announced that they had responded to a shooting in the area shortly after 9am. At about 10.30am, the police said that the incident was contained and the building was secure.

The UPS facility is a package delivery and sorting center with 350 employees in San Francisco’s Portrero Hill neighborhood. Dozens of uniformed employees were seen evacuating on foot.

“We all know the familiar faces of our local UPS drivers and delivery persons,” said San Francisco mayor Ed Lee. “Today’s tragedy will be felt in every community served by these committed employees.”

Some onlookers gathered at intersections around the facility, which takes up almost an entire city block.
“Everyone’s got some family working at UPS,” said one man.